Posts Tagged ‘Tokyo’

March 19th, 2010 by Mari Kanazawa

Nujabes is a Japanese hip-hop and Jazz musician, DJ, producuer, he passed away at a young age of 36, in a car accident in Tokyo.
Nujabes created a buzz about Japanese [...]

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Photo: Junko Kimura/Getty Images

If you’ve ever got a date to have one of those awkward dinners where you’re meeting up with someone to whom you’re pretty sure you’ve got nothing to say, it’s [...]

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Murakami

Last year, a picture was floating around the newswires of Kirsten Dunst, all dolled out in an anime-inspired outfit, wandering Tokyo. Back then, we guessed it was her attempt at [...]

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February 12th, 2010 by Adriane
Visitors to Hakone, Japan's "chocolate spa" dab chocolate on themselves. Women in Japan are socially obligated to give chocolate to their boyfriends, work colleagues and teachers on February 14. Photo Credit: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images

This weekend presents the intersection of my three favorite events — Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day, and President’s Day. Okay, well not President’s Day. But I do care a lot [...]

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Mina Hayashi (C) is announced as the Miss Japan 2010 while other awardees Sayo Kojima (L) Ami Suzuki (2L), Hanako Suzuki (3L), Mana Hayashi (3R), Aimi Azuma (2R) and Kyoko Honda (R) are also announced during the "Miss Japan Grand Prix Final" at Keio Plaza Hotel on January 25, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.  (Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images)

To win the crown, trophy, and red-ribbon that festoons a “Miss Japan,” one must both parade around a hotel ballroom in an aqua bikini and gracefully look natural in a [...]

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Photo Credt: Island Records

“Save some face, you know you’ve only got one. Change your ways when you’re young.” It seems The Killers’ took their own advice. The band’s saved face, bucked up to their exhaustion and they’retaking a break from their nearly non-stop touring schedule for “unforseen circumstances.” What totally STINKS is that they’ve canceled all its gigs in Asia. Want your money back? We’ll tell you how.

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I wrote that McDonalds Japan released an “American burger” series, and that first one would be the “Texas Burger” which has BBQ sauce, fried onions, bacon, cheese, and spicy mustard. [...]

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A Full-blown Porn Star on top of her game. Photo Credit: Michael Vincent

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know who Tera Patrick is (though probably your boyfriend does, as mine did), you’ll still want to read about how she slept for three [...]

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January 4th, 2010 by Samantha

You’re visiting Tokyo’s Akihabara district for some quality “maid” time. The cafes in the district offer hot maids, chubby maids, ear-cleaning maids and more, but you don’t like girls. And [...]

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December 16th, 2009 by Adriane

Free music from Tokyo? What’s the catch? There is none!
Music download service LimeWire runs a series of free download compilations that, each time around, feature the strummings of a different [...]

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BABIES! Photo Credits: Focus Features

OMG. If you hated Baby Geniuses for all its hokey stupidity you’ll love this new documentary. It’s the classy, Focus Features version of a baby movie, and tries none of [...]

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December 2nd, 2009 by Lo Martin

Just in case you think Poketo is still solely in the business of making radical limited edition art-covered wallets, this post is for you. They make other stuff. Lots of cool i-want-it other stuff, like, kawaii up the whazoo (more on that right after this, pinky swear…)!

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Visitor takes pictures of designed nail chips that are displayed for a competition

If you thought Fran Drescher’s Long Island was the home of the world’s most luxe, glamorous, some might say “over-the-top” nail art, you’re wrong. The home of the world’s biggest [...]

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Pattinson in Munich. Photo Credit: Getty Images

OMG, guys — New Moon comes out this Friday. THIS FRIDAY. So everyday this week, we’ll be bringing you a slew of tidbits you didn’t know about the movie, the [...]

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November 11th, 2009 by Adriane
Boom Boom Satellites with Taj

For those of you who don’t already know and love Tokyo’s Boom Boom Satellites, the guys have been producing a unique mix-up mash-up of electro and rock since way [...]

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November 8th, 2009 by Mari Kanazawa

The magazine “Nikkei Trendy” has released its list of “Hit Products of 2009.” It’s already time to discuss this kind of topic? Wow! Time has shot by like an arrow.
No.1 [...]

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November 5th, 2009 by Mari Kanazawa

The Tokyo Metro manner poster for November is good one.  Ha ha ha… it’s a good before/after. By the way, my American friend said he doesn’t care that women put [...]

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October 10th, 2009 by Mari Kanazawa

CEATEC is held now. The HRP-4C robot sings a song with Yamaha’s Vocaloid.

I prefer this usuful robot, it wipe your floor like an inchworm with a nanofiber cloth to wipe [...]

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